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(1) Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) established a common statistical classification of products by activity (‘CPA’). Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 started to apply on 1 January 2008.

(2) The internal consistency of European statistics requires that the CPA is structurally linked to its European reference classification, the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Union (‘NACE’), which was recently amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137 (3) that established NACE Revision 2 Update 1 (‘NACE Rev. 2.1’).

(3) Those changes to NACE Rev. 2.1 led to the adoption of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3103 (4) which amended Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 in order to establish CPA Version 2.2 (‘CPA Ver. 2.2’).

(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 (5) lays down technical specifications and arrangements, as well as data requirements for European business statistics in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/2152. Annex I and Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 set out data transmission requirements which refer to specific CPA headings. Those data transmission requirements should be updated in order to ensure that they are compatible with CPA Ver. 2.2.

(5) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 should therefore be amended.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,